xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Don’t bother checking the news regularly. Just take a screenshot of this toot and glance at it every once in a while.

Today’s Headlines:
- Bad Things Happened, Totally Preventable, Politicians Did Nothing
- Politicians Did Stuff That Resulted in Bad Things Happening

> * Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games

what do you bet they don't release all those games drm-free like they said they would do if steam were to shut down for some reason

@coolboymew NewGrounds now lets you upload a .zip file containing an index.html, which it displays in an iframe.

I would copy that format. My product name for it is an "Experience".

A "Submission" is a full page dedicated to an Experience, but Experiences could also be embedded in posts or displayed elsewhere.

It's still a rough idea.

There's another idea I have. It relates to archive.org

archive.org is an advanced file viewer that lets you preview nearly any type of file in the browser. An Experience is really just a file format, so it could render those, but it could also render things like GameBoy ROMs, 3D models, Animal Crossing pattern files, and other rare formats.

The end product is something between NewGrounds and Archive.org. It's built on Nostr, but it maybe also has IPFS capabilities because it seems like it should.

And if you look at NeoCities for inspiration, they've done a good job attracting a youth audience and they teach people how to code. Capturing that audience would be key.

the whole reason the federation model always fails is because it gets in the way of sensitive peoples feelings

They found 86-dos 0.1 and 0.34, holy fucking shit!

https://archive.org/details/86-dos-version-0.1-c-serial-11-original-disk
https://archive.org/details/86-dos-v-0.34-221-81-02-20

MS bought the code of this operating system to create MS-DOS.
Therefore this is the oldest version of dos ever and probably one of the first ever created.

Autism? .. That's all .. correct.

I still read documentation and search StackOverflow when I code. If I ever get to the point where I'm stuck and use a friend's OpenAI pro account, it 90% gives me wrong answers only. I'll spend ~30 minutes debugging its shitty code, only to throw it away. Sometimes I'll jump onto IRC and someone will say, "Oh you can't actually do that. It's because of this limitation <link to bug, code or issue>. You gotta do this instead".

ChatGPT 3.5/4 are fucking awful unless it's already a solved problem. At some point, people who keep using Co-Pilot or ChatGPT are going in end up in court over licenses because of some example code that was ripped verbatim from some other project.

I think the AI art and voice stuff might be pretty useful in allowing smaller teams to get animation projects done faster. There are already tools that will render drawing styles on top of line art as you're drawing it, which should get past a lot of copyright issues. It could help mediocre people make really cool shit. But as far as engineering, no one should trust A.I. to design a bridge.

The words “Sentient AI” crossed my stream and now I’m annoyed again

We don’t have AI.

We have large language model “Chinese Room” systems. They aren’t intelligent, aren’t capable of intelligence, and its an entirely 100% fake market. They represent a step backwards in the development of thinking machines, because they are going in the exact opposite direction to get to actual AI. It’s a school of charlatans.

It’s annoying.

#fediblock ers will complain about corporate influence over the internet and then take money from Pierre Omidyar to find out how best to censor one another

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Well THAT'S fancy! #meshtastic
https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=jeYwOLhNjew

I am betting the ActivityPub O'Reilly book is only going to mention Mastodon so it doesn't make AP sound as confusing as it really is.

@Tadano it's time to get used to it: whatever they call you - they themselves are guilty of that sevenfold
they call you a nazi? they're the ones who unironically live and breathe caring about racial superiority
they call you a commie? they're the ones who want to control everyone else
they call you a pedo? they're the ones who have child porn and argue about age of consent
they call you a cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller? well they're the ones digging tunnels under jew york
they call you orcs who steal toilets and have no tarmac roads? yeah go figure
it's always projection with those types

What do you guys think the world really needs from open-source, online communities right now? I'm building yet another microblogging thing. It's awesome and I think you guys are going to really like it. But I feel like there's some idea floating in the ether that we haven't grasped yet. Something new.